A Minor Nuisance Spread Across the Organization: Factors Leading to the Establishment and Support of Records and Information Management Programs (2005)

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Abstract
Examines the reasons why archives, records management, and information management programs are established in various kinds of organizations and explores reasons for some growing and prospering while others fail to survives. The study draws on two sources: the existing literature considering why and how such programs are established and selected interviews with individuals working at different kinds of archives, records, and information management programs in the Pittsburgh region where Dr. Cox serves as a professor at the University of Pittsburgh.